WEIRD

I have a sense of humor, but when I sat down yesterday to write a poem for my library group I began by writing down my stream of consciousness and this is the way it went: Hurry, Armageddon (where is the messiah?) Uncle; Home Sweet Home: Refugees; Here they come marching down the street, the militants on parade!; Down By the Riverside….Let’s study war; Long live birth control; Mother-love abortions; Not back to tooth and claw–we never left; An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth, A War for Death; Was cave man this bad; Retribution, piss off; I love you, MAGA; You Were a Beautiful Baby, but look at you now; Say No to Pompadors; Do What I Say, Not What ; Don’t Let Them Know; Control the Public for their own good; A Serpent’s Tooth; Are lessons of war all gold; Punishment by the fathers…and fathers…and fathers,,,and…; One Upsmanship is upside down; Reprehensible Indefensible; My war or yours? Let’s screw; Is Liberalism Worth Saving; Does size make wise; Light’s not light. Is dark light; Why me? Why not…

It was Time Change, and mid-night after all those thoughts and having “educated” myself on world religions I realized how peculiar it is for personkind all over the world* to have so much emotion and energy involved in religion. The fervor over religion reminds me of the energy involved in following sports in the USA, although more deadly.

During my search on the internet I came across the footage of a 19-year old woman who had been forced to marry against her wishes and had sought to leave the marriage with another man. She was being stoned to death on video camera by a large circle of men. Death was accomplished by men who were probably proud of themselves, and probably included men of her own family. Religion had triumphed again.